I can't stop polishing things. haha, I'm gettin pretty good at it though. This took me about 45 minutes including cleaning, sanding, wet sanding, and the actual polish. I made the circle's to "oval" shaped and the result was the "every thing looks fat" sort of mirror. How many of you integra guys have done this and is it rice or not?




excuse my shitty camera work

-Ryan

EDIT: that's my middle finger, not a stubbly weiner

 

who cars about this **** come on ryan. . . like your title says, your nothing but a postwhoring jackass


jon

 

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ah yes, i forgot... Mods - delete this post, or everyone can just ignore it

so has anyone done this? I want my engine bay to be the greatest looking part of my car. Engine bay is painted flat black with abou 20 coats, Engine, tranny, and head are high temp silver, and the head is black. I need to find some pretty little pieces to polish for fun.

 

Hey dont flip me off
Want to polish mines, you can get practice you post whoring JacKAsS

 

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yeah sure. Send me 11 bucks. That'll cover shipping back to you+ polish wheels for my lovely dremel - ANNND it'll be same day turn around

edit: just noticed ur from hawaii... better make it 600 dollars for air shipping

 

Looks good. Do you mind sharing your polishing technique?

 

2 pics, why would 56k die?

 

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nah, that aint rice; thats just making things look better. now if you forked over a couple hundred dollars to get em chromed, that would be another story.

 

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because i hate 56k... no other reason haha.

Here's how i went about polishing this lil piece.

First i cleaned everything with some bathroom scum remover and a rough scrub pad.

Use 220 grit sand paper in and even circular motion, then get some Criss cross straight lines in it, then go back to circular - basically go crazy but finish with the even circular motion. Do that for about 5-10 minutes or until your 220 grit sheet is dull.

Then get another piece of 220 grit, get it wet, and do the same thing and re-wet it often (every 20 seconds or so). Then after doing 5-7 minutes of that, i used 400 grit wet (same process). then I went to 1500 grit for about 10 minutes. Then I went 2000 grit wet for about 5 minutes.

Then properly clean the metal with water and a soft cotton cloth. Get that dremel out cuz its gonna be put to use. Get a polishing wheel on there (about 1" across and .25" tall). apply aluminum polish VERY generously with a cotton cloth. Then just start dremeling the polish all around until it hast he mirror shine.

Materials used:
Cotton Towel for cleaning


Scrub pad


Water


scrubbing juice


Dremel and polish wheels



Polish


Sand Paper


Let me know if you guys have any questions. Without a doubt, your first couple of projects will be time consuming. Just have at it and be patient!

-Ryan

 

come guys read the title

he wants to know if he is a ricer. and the answer is yes
just kidding that came out real good
my cousin has the same problem with polishing everything it just doesn't look as good.

 

AHHH i've been looking for this post! lol how to make things shiny wihtout spending dough.

lol

w00t clean *** engine, here you come!!!

 

ok im kinda out of it right now so forgive me but what the hell is that thnig u polished

 

my god. are those engine mounts?? and you do have a stubby finger.

 

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ha yea...ive never seen shiny ones before

 

wow.. now do that to your whole cars exterior, ricer

 

guess im a ricer too, i just polished my valve cover

 

how did the valve cover come out?

 

makes me wanna polish my engine parts too. hehe good job tegasaurus

 

i think you are kinda 2 much of a polishing tweeker. lol...i know that a lot of ice tweekers will polish anyting for a little cash and they do some pretty sick polishing jobs...lol. looks good though...u wana polish my engine parts for me?

 

That looks great, I wish I had the patience for that sort of thing

 

Seriously, if anyone wants me to polish stuff for them, intakes, intercooler piping, intercooler end tanks, valve covers, intake manifolds, engine mounts, misc wire bracketry, i'd be MORE than happy to do it. It's pretty fun and entertaining for me.

thanks for all of the feedback guys. The only thing i messed up with this was when i was making the circles when sanding, i made them more oval. I believe this is what makes the reflection appear improportional (short and fat or skinny and tall).

What else should i polish guys?

-Ryan

 

LOL u wanna dress up my motor!!!

 

ha, sure... what do you want done? PM me if you're serious.